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Wednesday, February 22, 2017

power out in the forest

POWER OUT IN THE FOREST

I don’t know how many of
you living as far away from the malignant craphole of California as possible (
not that a lot of you aren’t living in equally untenable locations that are
swarming with the scumbags of the universe in million multiples-so no offense
to Cali residents in particular.I just
hold a place near and dear to my rectum for the state since I was trapped there
for so long ) have heard about the dam in Oroville threatening to give way, or
did give way, or whatever it did-and frankly my dear loyal minions I could give
a crap about anyway-and are now loudly proclaiming yet another instance of
infrastructure collapse.Which of course
it is.This latest bout of warmer
weather and rain are flooding a lot of places out here in the west.Places that are no stranger to many years of
drought followed by flash floods.Hell,
California itself, in particular Southern California, has ALWAYS seen flash
flood damage after prolonged drought and fire.

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As fire and flood are
normal, we then ask ourselves ifthe
rain damage now is severe because of Gore Warming or because of infrastructure
neglect and collapse.As you might
suspect, I fall in the infrastructure collapse camp ( not that global weather
change isn’t real, it is just that past flooding has been about as bad and yet
didn’t effect infrastructure as badly-in general, as there always being
exceptions ).As bad as weather change
will be, and is already, we have done ourselves little favor by the way we’ve
painted a target on ourselves so that the change is all for the
catastrophic.Overpopulation to profit
the elite, infrastructure neglect to amass fortunes for the few ( locally,
streets are repaved even when not needed, with the curb work extremely
substandard and inefficient for drainage even as that was the justification for
the work, while the old part of town by the river is allowed to rot.It is far easier to skim the money off easy
work than something hard.And someone
ALWAYS profits ).Now look at your
location and note the eye candy extremely expensive work being done even as the
rest of everything is neglected.This
was especially easy to see during the pre-2007 building bubble as new
subdivisions were slapped up with huge municipal fees for construction.The added infrastructure is guaranteed to
fail prior to the mortgages being paid off, the work and material were below Mexico
standard, and at the same time the older infrastructure was ignored.

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This story is of course
nothing new.I merely expand upon it to
fill in the back story.Here is what I’d
like to touch on today.You excitedly
point out single instances of infrastructure collapse.The Michigan bridge.The Oroville dam.The L.A. earthquake decades ago only
collapsing government structures ( in an area with insanely high taxes ).The constant electrical outages even on clear
and windless days.The Internet slow
downs regularly.Water from the tap
either full of extra chlorine or extra toxins.Potholes everywhere except into Yuppie Hill.And then, you still stay exactly where you
are, completely vulnerable to the effects of infrastructure decay and collapse.All these failures are certainly NOT one off
events.They are systematic.We no longer have the skill, materials to
include energy ( in the sixteen years since the new century, our energy net
return is HALF what it was, globally ) or financing ( an interesting fun filled
fact.I was just reading that something
like 80% and up of all monies in the financial sector stay there.The remaining twenty percent trickles down
into the real world for real needs ) to maintain our infrastructure.As a minion helpfully and hilariously pointed
out, our whole surrounding structure was a White Elephant we stupidly rewarded
ourselves with.

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How did we develop the
blindness where we see collapse but then convince ourselves we can avoid it
even as we live in it?We are seeing the
trees and ignoring the forest.Or, in
this case, the power has gone out in the forest and we don’t worry about
it.I am certainly NOT calling for mass
action to “fix” our problem.There is no
acting in concert nor is there any hope in Hades that any of this can be fixed
or reversed.The Donald can’t stop the
Muslims from being flown in one by one and he thinks he can build a thousands
of miles wall on our southern border?All we can do is act to save our own families and tribes and to Gott
Damn hell with the rest of humanity.But
to do even that, you must pull your head out of your ass.Your job?THAT is part of the failing infrastructure.Your thirty year mortgage house?That is part of the job market, financial
industry, centralized government, petroleum importation, electrical and sewer
and water grid and Internet infrastructure all tied together.Now, if all those are failing, why are you
staying in the city again?What am I
missing?

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Just because our
infrastructure has been failing for forty years and we have worked around that
doesn’t mean we can continue to.Before,
single failures abounded.Now,
systematic failures are occurring.Surely it hasn’t escaped your notice that New Orleans is still only half
full with piles of bulldozed neighborhoods still sitting in soggy refuse
piles?And that was a relatively small
metro area.How about Detroit?Anyone notice the street lights suddenly lit
again?How about all those tens of
thousands of abandoned buildings?Suddenly cleared or occupied?We
are the 1920’s Jews in Germany, reading articles on how we are going to be
removed from the Aryan State.Do we do
something about it, or not?The
infrastructure collapse is a very blatant canary in the coal mine keeling
over.Are you paying attention?Today it is dams failing in the West,
tomorrow it could be you sitting in the dark trying to read your pink slip.

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Yes! The lord bison's wisdom is correct. Like his hair. I am in cesspool las vegas and all of the analogies ring correct. It is a big game of ignore small items and patch and putty other projects. The cities and remains are only worth their salvagable materials after the collapse and die off of the talent that held it together this long. Invest in pioneer tools to rebuild your own world circa 1800s. Ha! Enjoy it whilst ya can.

Annon 2/23 1am I too lived in vegas - I hope you are moving out ASAP and/or have a really good water filter and air filter. The various washes, pools, and lakes will have water for a little while after the collapse but it is going to be NASTY quickly. When I visited there a little while ago the air pollution was so bad that it took me a month+ for my lungs to recover.

Here in my tiny 100 year old town the water pipes have been failing for decades, the mayor has a project to replace them all with new ones but it is going to take several more years for it to be completed.The end result of failing infrastructure means that YOU have to provide the infrastructure you need yourself. Clean drinking water, waste removal/recycling, runoff control, power, heat, etc, etc. Any of it that you require outside aid to complete is NOT going to work in a few decades. Septic systems have to be pumped out by septic service companies. Most sorts of batteries in solar power setups only last a decade at most (spend that time saving for edison or salt water batteries), trucked in water, propane, or what have you is going to get too expensive or outright unavailable soon enough. You don't have to not have them, but you need alternatives ready to replace them. One of the big ones to consider is what you are going to do when you still have a job or frequent in town visit needs and the roads between your homestead and town are no longer maintained - can you get through them without getting stuck during the worst weather (that's one of the big ones I am still working on...) ?

. . .or a good pair of boots and socks. I started out with a good four wheel drive truck in summer and a crappy snowmobile in winter to get into my off the beaten track place. After job losses I regressed to an old 1971 Honda in summer, then a little ATV in winter. Farther into the lean years and low job hours I used a bicycle with motor in summer and a deer cart in the winter. Now its a straight balloon tire single speed in summer and snowshoes on my old sho-gooed mickey boots in the winter. As things broke down and I couldn't invest in repairs things gravitated to the least complicated state. Somewhat refreshing, but immensely more labor intensive, as long as my body stays strong. . .

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